Re: [Chicken-users] chmod a+rw indeed

[Elf]

um, changing to 644 is almost certainly incorrect for executables.  methinks
you want 0755.

-elf

On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, felix winkelmann wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Drake Wilson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Sorry for the short pre-message research time, but this seems bogus
> > enough to warrant it.  I just built Chicken 3.4.0 from source in
> > /usr/local/src/chicken-3.4.0 on Debian GNU/Linux x86_64 ("sid"), and
> > at the end of the [make install] output, I see:
> >
> >  $ sudo make PLATFORM=linux PREFIX=/usr/local USE_HOST_PCRE=yes install
> >  [...]
> >  chmod a+rw chicken csi \
> >            csc chicken-profile
> >  chmod a+rw chicken-setup
> >
> > Uh.  Why is this making the executables world-writable?  Who said I
> > wanted other UIDs on this machine to be able to write to those files?
> > It seems like a pretty bad idea to be doing that without user consent,
> > or at the very least a prominent notice!
> >
> > A few searches on chicken.wiki.br, the Web, and the user manual turn
> > up nothing relevant about "world-writable" or "chmod a+rw", so here I
> > post.
>
> Thanks for reporting this. I changed the invocation to use 0644 instead.
>
>
> cheers,
> felix
>
>
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